(Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Broward public schools are projected to have a 40-student decline per school for the upcoming year. That’s the message from today’s school board budget workshop. <\/p>\n
The Broward Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn says declining enrollment continues to dictate the upcoming budget which is already in a deficit.<\/p>\n
As a result, more schools could be shut down in the 2027-2028 school year with 40-fewer students per school expected. <\/p>\n
In total, next year there will 9 thousand less students which equals a loss in state allocation of $90 million dollars, according to Hepburn. <\/p>\n
In addition, the BCPS budget is still in flux because the state legislature has not passed a budget yet. <\/p>\n
Once lawmakers decide on a budget, possibly next week, then schools will know what their base student allocations will be for the coming year.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Hepburn says there’s already a teacher salary\/benefit deficit of $56-million and the school board has already cut a thousand positions which will help balance the budget.<\/p>\n
As a result, six schools will close next month with more than 10 schools possibly shutting down in the 2027-2028 school year. <\/p>\n
Affected students will be integrated into other campuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Fort Lauderdale, FL) – Broward public schools are projected to have a 40-student decline per school for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15823,9935,249,251,250,74649,4348,118176,3384],"class_list":["post-276803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward","tag-budget","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-howard-hepburn","tag-schools","tag-student-reduction","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}